From Suzuki Paleotax db:
1913 Xiphosphaera tesseractis n. sp. Dreyer p. 10-15, pl. 2, fig. 3, 3a, 4
1974 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Renz p. 799, pl. 14, fig. 15
1976 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Renz p. 106-107, pl. 2, fig. 2
1978 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer McMillen & Casey pl. 1, fig. 18
1981 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Takahashi & Honjo p. 148, pl. 3, fig. 9
1984 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Nishimura & Yamauchi p. 36, pl. 5, figs. 13, 14
1990 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Fujioka pl. 40, fig. 5
1991 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Takahashi p. 70, pl. 12, figs. 3-5
1993 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Tan p. 187, pl. 1, figs. 4, 5
1996 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Chen & Tan p. 163, pl. 4, fig. 16, pl. 38, fig. 1
1998 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Tan p. 122, text-fig. 106
1999 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Tan & Chen p. 144, pl. 13, figs. 17, 18
2012 Xiphosphaera tesseractis Dreyer Krsinic & Krsinic pl. 3, fig. 24
Catalog entries: Xiphosphaera tesseractis
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Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant. Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "R age group"
First occurrence (base): within Quaternary Period (0.00-2.59Ma, base in Gelasian stage). Data source: Lazarus et al. 2015 - "R age group"
Plot of occurrence data:
Dreyer, F (1913). Die Polycystinen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. 3: 1-104. gs Hull, D. M. (1993). Quaternary, Eocene, and Cretaceous Radiolarians from the Hawaiian Arch, Northern Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results. 136: 3-25. gs References:

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Xiphosphaera tesseractis compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 18-1-2026
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